1800 – French army defeats Turks at Helipolis and advance to Cairo
1897 – France signs treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
1922 – WIP-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
1932 – Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR
1956 – Tunisia gains independence from France
1965 – Civil and Women’s Rights Activist Dorothy Height has her first column published in the weekly African-American newspaper called the “New York Amsterdam News”
1987 – NASA launches Palapa B2P
1995 – Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured
1996 – “Love Thy Neighbor” opens at Booth Theater NYC
1997 – World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Elvis Stojko of Canada